What has never been seen to
be possible has happened at last in 1980s. With that medical science has taken
a significant step forward to help people with life threatening diseases as
transfusion of blood has become quite risk free and safe. No more is there need
for people to rush to blood banks for specific blood for a particular group.
All this is now removed with the appearance of unique stem cell banking system
in Canada and other parts of the world.
When you aim for the replica
of your blood earlier you were almost stressed out by asking people around.
Later on the blood banks too failed to provide clean and disease free blood for
transfusion. It is only recently that you have abundant supply of umbilical
cord blood so that you may easily transfuse it for child or adult without any
apprehension.
Blood Revolution
Researchers have seen that
the blood from fetus is the best type of blood for extracting flexible stem
cells for future transplants and cord blood storage. Nature has always made the
umbilical cord that connects the mother’s womb with her baby as the best source
of exchanging proteins and oxygen.
Naturally, it has also been
studied that this blood is immature such that it can always go with any other
type of blood group. This immature blood is also immune to most kind of
diseases as it is always well protected inside the mother’s womb so that no
harm comes to the child.
Now this very blood is
collected after the birth of the baby and is taken to a laboratory within a
banking cord blood facility and stem cells are extracted out of it. This is
then stored for future use in frozen form with the help of nitrogen storage
facilities with a mission for saving umbilical cord.
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